John Ince (born ) is a Canadian author, lawyer, entrepreneur and from 2005 to 2012 activist in the

sex-positive movement The sex-positive movement is a social and philosophical movement that seeks to change cultural attitudes and norms around sexuality, promoting the recognition of sexuality (in the countless forms of expression) as a natural and healthy part of t ...

Legal career

Ince began practicing law in the early 1980s focusing on environmental issues but gradually moved to the human rights field, specializing in sexual issues. He represented performers and individual citizens fighting sexual

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laws. One of his cases, ''Luscher v. Canada'' successfully struck down as unconstitutional a federal law that for over one hundred years had prohibited sexual material from entering Canada. He represented the Canadian

polyamory Polyamory () is the practice of, or the desire for, romantic relationships with more than one partner at the same time, with the informed consent of all partners involved. Some people who identify as polyamorous believe in consensual non-mon ...

community in the 2011 constitutional reference case concerning Canada’s polygamy laws.

Sex-positive activism

In 2002, Ince opened The Art of Loving, a

sex shop A sex shop is a retailer that sells products related to adult sexual or erotic entertainment, such as sex toys, lingerie, pornography, and other related products. An early precursor of the modern sex shop was a chain of stores set up in Par ...

Vancouver Vancouver is a major city in Western Canada, located in the Lower Mainland region of British Columbia. As the List of cities in British Columbia, most populous city in the province, the 2021 Canadian census recorded 662,248 people in the cit ...

, Canada It sells art, instructional books and videos and pleasure products. It also produces sexual seminars, some led by Ince. He produced an erotic event at The Art of Loving that garnered international media attention in 2003. In 2005 Ince and many other erotic arts activists founded

The Sex Party The Sex Party was a political party based in British Columbia, Canada. The party was guided by the philosophy of the sex-positive movement. Among other points, the party advocated for reform of sex education in schools so that sexual issues are ...

, the world’s first officially registered sex-positive political party. Ince was party leader from 2005 until 2012. He and others ran as candidates in two provincial general elections in 2005 and 2009.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Ince, John 1952 births 21st-century Canadian lawyers British Columbia political party leaders Canadian non-fiction writers Living people Sex positivism Writers from British Columbia